tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post3765844032690957232..comments2017-03-15T10:54:26.527+04:00Comments on exo.blog: (Editorial) Confessions of an Internet “Shock Jock”Research Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13688739704799598919noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-48842919253684240452010-02-28T19:17:57.936+04:002010-02-28T19:17:57.936+04:00Oops I forgot Blogger doesn&#39;t allow the mod fl...Oops I forgot Blogger doesn&#39;t allow the mod flexibility WP does. My bad.markjohnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09054249767020062506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-8973390971021197732010-02-28T14:32:35.849+04:002010-02-28T14:32:35.849+04:00Mark,
It&#39;s my blog. I don&#39;t have to let t...Mark,<br /><br />It&#39;s my blog. I don&#39;t have to let the trolls run all over it if I don&#39;t want to. Post something constructive and I&#39;ll moderate it into the mix. Otherwise, it&#39;s boink time!<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for the kind words - and stay tuned, because all of the dirt hasn&#39;t come out yet. :-)<br /><br />RCKRandall C. Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11388524265141175059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-52671144921090713512010-02-28T11:43:49.973+04:002010-02-28T11:43:49.973+04:00Ironic how you don&#39;t allow anonymous comments ...Ironic how you don&#39;t allow anonymous comments here. ;)<br /><br />Anyway, good read. I liked hearing your side. Sounds reasonable. You&#39;re all right with me. Hope you can still afford that crib in Danville ;)<br /><br />Mark<br />dailymixdown.commarkjohnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09054249767020062506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-591603656460967492010-02-26T08:35:43.971+04:002010-02-26T08:35:43.971+04:00Hi Randall, gotta say even I was guilty of spreadi...Hi Randall, gotta say even I was guilty of spreading this news to my wife and others, but that is because the news posts I read never made mention that you actually did represent DMS. The story was interesting since it was &quot;blogger impersonates CTO of unrelated tech company&quot;, not &quot;CEO of tech company uses pseudonym&quot; far less sexy gos and not really a point of conte.<br /><br /Kamilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05408409942983429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-74365608871623264982010-02-25T23:01:52.441+04:002010-02-25T23:01:52.441+04:00Paul (above) has it exactly right: The mistake her...Paul (above) has it exactly right: The mistake here wasn&#39;t to use a false name, but to use a false name for a source instead of for an author. After all, hasn&#39;t InfoWorld had a series of guys named Robert X. Cringely writing for it for decades? And isn&#39;t there a blogger named The Macalope haunting the halls of Macworld (another fine IDG publication) after an extended run at cnet (a Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222896594587042997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-89599236843053825062010-02-25T20:11:54.222+04:002010-02-25T20:11:54.222+04:00I was with you up until you started pointing finge...I was with you up until you started pointing fingers at your former colleague who also kept your secret. Whether he was covering his own ass or not he was also covering yours. Smearing him in public was not cool.<br /><br />Additionally, posting as one persona and referencing the work of the other shows a deep lack of journalistic integrity. You are showing outside support for a viewpoint where Mahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01724618516481416832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-49067648505817247952010-02-25T18:45:04.862+04:002010-02-25T18:45:04.862+04:00Diego,
Microsoft has attacked DMS before. They tr...Diego,<br /><br />Microsoft has attacked DMS before. They tried to discredit our OfficeBench test script when we published benchmark numbers that were unflattering to them. So it wouldn&#39;t be the first time.<br /><br />Also, the lengths to which ZDNet has gone to try to destroy us - painting every &quot;discovery&quot; in the most snide, cynical and suggestive light possible - reeks of Randall C. Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11388524265141175059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-74397263749870851402010-02-25T18:14:01.469+04:002010-02-25T18:14:01.469+04:00Just curious: given this &quot;confession&quot; -a...Just curious: given this &quot;confession&quot; -as yourself named it-, how much M$ was involved in your fallout (<a href="http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/when-microsoft-attacks-again.html" rel="nofollow">http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/when-microsoft-attacks-again.html</a>)? A few days ago you said that there was no big deal in using a false identity but the hidden reason was that yourDiegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10029949207248521148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-24344703100818698832010-02-25T10:15:13.611+04:002010-02-25T10:15:13.611+04:00I&#39;m sorry, I have no sympathy, you have no int...I&#39;m sorry, I have no sympathy, you have no integrity as proved by your willingness to trade facts for page hits.<br /><br />This whole memory issue or whatever you claim to have discovered with Vista &amp; Windows 7 is just another case of your &quot;shock-jock&quot; blogging.Synaesthesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551298411293601010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-18721074534693804602010-02-25T09:59:30.524+04:002010-02-25T09:59:30.524+04:00cmholm,
But that doesn&#39;t mean I&#39;m willing...cmholm,<br /><br />But that doesn&#39;t mean I&#39;m willing to just roll over and give up, either. The beauty of the internet is that it&#39;s a great equalizer. My colleagues at IDG are always complaining how hard it is to differentiate themselves from the &quot;great unwashed masses&quot; and to attract eyeballs to their &quot;superior, professional&quot; content.<br /><br />I think it&#39;s Randall C. Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11388524265141175059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-12596330327192310652010-02-25T09:29:50.999+04:002010-02-25T09:29:50.999+04:00Interesting perspective. Given what we broadly kno...Interesting perspective. Given what we broadly know about the ethics of trade reporting (hellooooow Dvorak!), this situation doesn&#39;t shock me. I can&#39;t help but feel that Mr. Kennedy can literally afford to come clean. It looks like he&#39;s set well enough that even if he were somehow blackballed from the IT industry, it wouldn&#39;t really matter.cmholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977315993862071473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-80152281428124045082010-02-25T03:43:27.890+04:002010-02-25T03:43:27.890+04:00Randal, or is it Barth - whichever it is, by barin...Randal, or is it Barth - whichever it is, by baring one&#39;s soul in a most public place, in a most public manner indicates your heart is in the right place. You value the truth above all else.<br /><br />In today&#39;s day-in-age, with Toyota, financial industry, government and everyone else trying to skirt what is right - and just owning up when they are wrong your words are a refreshing Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970749279983927266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-17522184257016322972010-02-25T03:01:33.061+04:002010-02-25T03:01:33.061+04:00You screwed up big. That being said - you stood u...You screwed up big. That being said - you stood up and took some accountability for your part.<br /><br />Not 100%, but I you earned some respect back. You are human after all.The Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12231277457900915183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-17059087094750580952010-02-25T00:40:55.773+04:002010-02-25T00:40:55.773+04:00&quot;I know Windows development inside and out. L...&quot;I know Windows development inside and out. Linux...not so much. :-(&quot;<br /><br />Yep. The shoe fits alright!Sunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248486075624232014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-46402766385829660252010-02-24T23:35:39.900+04:002010-02-24T23:35:39.900+04:00Randall, did you learn what memory cache means yet...Randall, did you learn what memory cache means yet? The high percentage of ram use by win7 is a performance enhancer, preloading things from disk while idle. When memory is needed by other apps, the cache is dropped, instantly. I don&#39;t see how you could miss this being such a &quot;veteran&quot;.pahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551137510266059910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-85642873141435740552010-02-24T23:31:02.449+04:002010-02-24T23:31:02.449+04:00I love it when a Gartner alum succeeds.
Gideon Ga...I love it when a Gartner alum succeeds.<br /><br />Gideon GartnerGideonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11090424518519334275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-78412472280305925332010-02-24T23:03:34.001+04:002010-02-24T23:03:34.001+04:00Get over yourself already.Get over yourself already.David Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03573629759647894295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-10845842172843752242010-02-24T22:03:25.486+04:002010-02-24T22:03:25.486+04:00It&#39;s probably also worth pointing out that far...It&#39;s probably also worth pointing out that far and away the biggest consumer of memory on my system is not the OS at all, but Google Chrome. In other words, the memory usage would be substantially the same regardless of which OS I used. Of all my committed memory (around 4 GB total), Chrome accounts for 1 GB of it.<br /><br />Next up is Windows Live Mail at 250 MB, Digsby at 198 MB, SQL DrPizzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15335488976548439448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-88900665065541713322010-02-24T21:36:42.586+04:002010-02-24T21:36:42.586+04:00@john,
Don&#39;t worry, I&#39;m going to be getti...@john,<br /><br />Don&#39;t worry, I&#39;m going to be getting plenty vocal in the coming days and weeks. The web hasn&#39;t seen the last of me, regardless of how hard ZDNet tries to make it so.<br /><br />@Scott,<br /><br />Thanks for dropping by, man! I mean it, I genuinely appreciate the support and encouragement. It&#39;s times like these that you figure out who your friends really are in Randall C. Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11388524265141175059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-54351069571119052692010-02-24T21:29:19.696+04:002010-02-24T21:29:19.696+04:00dvinas,
Again, thank you for the kind words. I&#3...dvinas,<br /><br />Again, thank you for the kind words. I&#39;m truly inspired by the outpouring of support I&#39;ve received in the few hours since I posted this. On the phone, via email, here on the blog - it&#39;s encouraging to know that my attempt to come clean and refocus on the positive aspects of what I was trying to accomplish has not fallen on deaf ears. I genuinely appreciate your Randall C. Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11388524265141175059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-7151160921948977032010-02-24T21:24:16.230+04:002010-02-24T21:24:16.230+04:00Well this saga is proof that people can get themse...Well this saga is proof that people can get themselves into one hell of a mess just through doing nothing to rectify a past mistake...<br /><br />I hope that your business will survive this particular blip and believe it or not I hope that you do not give up on writing altogether...<br /><br />...for what its worth I would now be interested in reading some *new* stuff but this time posted as *youJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02367900543021528133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-73867389179835230812010-02-24T21:23:32.332+04:002010-02-24T21:23:32.332+04:00Randall, I&#39;m glad you took the time to write t...Randall, I&#39;m glad you took the time to write this.<br /><br />Based on my interaction with you as a vendor (Altiris/Symantec), I was surprised when the &quot;shock jock&quot; persona started to emerge. I figured you were way too smart to be saying some of the things you were saying against MS.<br /><br />So this all actually makes sense to me! And I wish you great success with DMS and Scott Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11854947073649800923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-26593760248387232002010-02-24T21:17:37.763+04:002010-02-24T21:17:37.763+04:00I have to say that I&#39;m not surprised by anythi...I have to say that I&#39;m not surprised by anything you&#39;ve written. I sensed from the start that you were on-the-level with the report. It&#39;s the nature of the beast that when you step on anyone&#39;s toes on the web, they will attempt to crucify you in the court of public opinion. It&#39;s one of the sad characteristics of life online that people behave like raving lunatics when they dvinashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02589910234828687451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-44345230608906791192010-02-24T20:53:36.913+04:002010-02-24T20:53:36.913+04:00The hard lessons in life are the one&#39;s that ma...The hard lessons in life are the one&#39;s that make us better. They are also the easiest to ignore when judging the risk in something you really want.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00198303819640424312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285849328344730084.post-86202110521325995822010-02-24T20:42:24.177+04:002010-02-24T20:42:24.177+04:00I still don&#39;t see what the big deal is all abo...I still don&#39;t see what the big deal is all about. Facts are facts and as long as your not manipulating the facts I could give a flying F*** less when it comes to who it was posted by. Craig Barth or Randall C. Kennedy are just names to me, I can see how there might be a possible conflict of interest but none the less <b>FACTS ARE STILL FACTS.</b> <br />That being said, I don&#39;t know Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884520427764530009noreply@blogger.com